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A BRITISH MAN collected over 40,000 records – including vinyl singles and CDs – throughout his life, buying Top 40 chart hits every week from the 1950s to 2015.

Now Keith Sivyer’s entire collection is going under the hammer following the 75-year-old’s death – and includes records by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Abba, and the Sex Pistols as well as many one-hit wonders.Ewbank Auctioneers, which is looking after the sale, has detailed music-lover and former DJ Sivyer’s dedication, explaining how his three-bed terraced house had thousands of pop records “neatly arranged on shelves around the rooms”.

(CNN)Singer Ben E. King, whose classic hit "Stand By Me" became an enduring testament of love and devotion for generations of listeners, has died.

King died Thursday in New Jersey, his booking agent, Randy Irwin, told CNN. He was 76.

Born in North Carolina, King first found success as an original member of the Drifters, the doo-wop group famous for such hits as "Save the Last Dance for Me."

But he is remembered most for "Stand By Me," which was inspired by a gospel song. The tune was a top 10 hit in the U.S. in 1961 and returned to the charts 25 years later when it was prominently featured in "Stand By Me," Rob Reiner's 1986 coming-of-age movie about four adolescent boys.

The song has been covered hundreds of times and has long been a staple at weddings.

In March 2015 the Library of Congress inducted King's original version into the National Recording Registry, saying "it was King's incandescent vocal that made it a classic."

Hello, Last.fm Family. I have set up a "Last.fm" music group in memory of my late cousin. Please take a moment to check it out. This group is set up as a memorial to the life of Dexter Maurice Bryant (1963 - 2014). Dexter loved music and was a great musician who played keyboards, drums, trumpet, and bass. The artists represented in this group inspired Dexter to play music. He will be missed but not forgotten.

Maïak creates one of key post-rock releases of 2015. They created to something big, something to be heard! The album is called “A Very Pleasant Way to Die”.

Filled with the symbolic weight of a catastrophe that arose as the punishment of man’s guilty arrogance in an outburst remained silent, Maïak delivers a dark and powerful instrumental rock that evolves between tenuous melancholy and chaotic blast. Released by Fluttery Records which usually release amazing post-rock, ambient and modern classical albums.

This post-rock storm comes from Switzerland. If you haven't heard it yet, here they have “A Very Pleasant Way to Die” on Bandcamp.

"After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came downstairs to from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you. So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.” Matthew 28:1-10 (NIV)

We celebrate the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ today! He came that we may have Life and have it more abundantly!

The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, a California clergyman who started his ministry by preaching in a drive-in movie theater and transformed it into an empire, building the landmark megachurch the Crystal Cathedral, writing best sellers and, through television, exhorting millions to believe in themselves, died on Thursday in Artesia, Calif. He was 88.

His family confirmed his death. Dr. Schuller learned in August 2013 that he had esophageal cancer.

Like other empires, Dr. Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral Ministries faltered after he stepped down as its leader in 2006. Crushing debt from lavish overspending, a changing religious broadcast industry, an aging audience and a mishandled family succession all contributed to its filing for bankruptcy in 2010. The Crystal Cathedral was sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County in 2012.

But for more than 40 years Dr. Schuller was an apostle of positive thinking and a symbol of success, a charismatic shepherd who as one of television’s first preachers reached audiences around the world with a hopeful message of self-healing and self-empowerment. (One of his books is titled “Turning Hurts Into Halos.”)

His ministry represented a new wave in mainstream American Protestantism, one that held out hope not just for achieving personal salvation, its traditional concern, but also for solving personal problems. Dr. Schuller proclaimed a “theology of self-esteem” and a belief in the power of “possibility thinking.”

Typically wearing lavender and purple vestments and a broad smile, he became a Sunday-morning fixture in countless homes, a kind-faced, white-haired pastor delivering sermons on “Hour of Power.” Inaugurated in 1970, it became the nation’s most-watched weekly religious program in the 1980s.

Probably nothing symbolized the ambition of his enterprise more than the Crystal Cathedral, a glass-sheathed edifice he built on 40 acres in Garden Grove, Calif., and opened in 1980. It cost $18 million (the equivalent of $51 million today).

One of the country’s first megachurches, the cathedral gave Dr. Schuller an imposing pulpit from which to reach his global flock, not to mention a roomy stage for his showmanship; the church’s Christmas pageant came complete with live camels and horses and angels overhead on cables.

His own religious upbringing was of the conventional sort. Robert Harold Schuller was born on Sept. 16, 1926, on a farm in Alton, Iowa. He was raised in the Dutch Reformed Church and educated at two of its institutions, Hope College and Western Theological Seminary, both in Holland, Mich. After graduating in 1950, he became a pastor in Chicago.

Five years later he had joined the postwar exodus to booming Southern California, where he hoped to establish a church that would attract people who were not churchgoers. Scouting for a place to hold services, he and his wife, Arvella, settled on a drive-in theater off the Santa Ana Freeway in Orange County. On Sunday mornings he could rent it for $10. There he built an altar and a 15-foot cross and took out an ad in a local paper.

“Worship as you are,” it said, “in the family car.”

The first meeting of the Garden Grove Community Church was held on March 27, 1955. About 75 motorists and their families showed up to listen to Dr. Schuller preach from the roof of the drive-in’s refreshment stand. The offering that day was $86.79.

The congregation, formally affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, a mainline Protestant denomination, grew steadily, thanks to Dr. Schuller’s tireless mailing and doorbell-ringing campaigns. But it was a visit from a guest speaker, the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author of the best-selling book “The Power of Positive Thinking,” that propelled the church to wider recognition and drove Dr. Schuller in a new direction.

Hearing Dr. Peale talk to the congregation about the personal benefits of accepting God was a revelation for Dr. Schuller.

“That sermon by Dr. Peale changed my style from ‘preaching’ to ‘witnessing,’ ” he said in a 1975 interview with The Los Angeles Times. “Until that moment, I looked upon the job of a sermon to be fundamentally directed to generate a sense of guilt in guilty hearts.”

Dr. Schuller realized that a somber message, especially in sunny California, was hardly the best way to draw people to church. It also dawned on him, he said, that “Jesus never called a human being a sinner.”

In 1961 the Garden Grove Community Church moved to a new sanctuary designed by the prominent modernist architect Richard Neutra. Seven years later it was joined by another Neutra-designed structure, a 14-story glass “Tower of Hope” filled with offices and a chapel and topped by a 90-foot neon cross that could be seen from Disneyland in Anaheim, a mile and a half away.

But the centerpiece of the Schuller architectural empire was yet to come: the Crystal Cathedral, a glass structure shaped like a four-pointed star and longer than a football field, designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee. Opened in 1980, it featured more than 10,000 panes of glass and seated almost 3,000 worshipers and 1,000 singers and musicians.

It also held one of the world’s largest pipe organs and a giant indoor television screen. Outside, it had another stadium-size screen for drive-in worshipers.

The cathedral was conceived in part as the studio for the “Hour of Power” telecasts. Accompanied by the choir, Dr. Schuller began each program in dramatic fashion, striding to the pulpit and pressing a button that opened two 90-foot doors behind him to the outside world and sent water jetting from a dozen fountains.

The theatrics and his upbeat sermons, peppered with catchphrases like “Turn your scars into stars” and “It takes guts to leave the ruts,” made “Hour of Power” one of the most-watched religious shows in history and generated millions in donations. It drew more than 7.5 million American viewers weekly in the mid-1980s and added twice that number after it began appearing in dozens of other countries.

Perhaps the greatest sign of its popularity came in 1989, when authorities invited Dr. Schuller to speak in the Soviet Union’s first religious telecast. He soon began taping a special monthly show for Soviet national television.

His success on the air also paved the way for frequent best sellers, including “Tough Times Don’t Last, but Tough People Do” and “If It’s Going to Be, It’s Up to Me.” In all, he wrote more than 30 books.

He even brought his message to the White House in 1995, when President Bill Clinton invited him for a private prayer meeting during a tough moment in his presidency. The next year he was invited by the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat to a private meeting to discuss hopes for world peace.

In Garden Grove he added a $20 million Center for Possibility Thinking, designed by Richard Meier. At the groundbreaking ceremony in 2001, Dr. Schuller received a lifetime achievement award from the American Institute of Architects.

He retired as pastor of the Garden Grove Community Church on the first day of 2006, handing over leadership to his only son, Robert A. Schuller, and leaving the church deeply in debt, largely because of the lavish building project. His son was pushed out within two years, setting off a family feud when his sisters and their husbands took control of the church in 2008. One daughter, the Rev. Sheila Schuller Coleman, became head pastor.

After filing for bankruptcy protection, the church sold its campus to investors in 2011. It was later bought by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange County and renamed Christ Cathedral in 2012.

Dr. Schuller’s wife, Arvella, died in 2014. In addition to his son and Ms. Schuller Coleman, his survivors include three other daughters, Jeanne Dunn, Carol Milner and Gretchen Penner; 19 grandchildren; and many great-children.

Dr. Schuller ended his relationship with the church he had built in bitterness. Within days in 2012, he and his wife resigned from the board of Crystal Cathedral Ministries, citing an “adversarial and negative atmosphere” amid a lawsuit over payments to Dr. Schuller for the use of his likeness and sermons on “Hour of Power.”

Days earlier the board had forced Dr. Schuller’s daughter Gretchen Penner and two of his sons-in-law to resign their leadership positions. After the cathedral was sold, the family cut its ties with “Hour of Power,” and Ms. Schuller Coleman led a breakaway group of parishioners in establishing a new church, the Hope Center of Christ, in Orange County. Dr. Schuller’s grandson Bobby recently became the lead pastor of both “Hour of Power” and the successor to Dr. Schuller’s original church, now called Shepherd’s Grove.

The financial setbacks, firings and general ill will between the family and the church’s board left many parishioners shocked and saddened by the sudden collapse of their cherished church and its beloved founder’s sour last chapter.

But even in resigning, Dr. Schuller left behind a positive message. “No matter what, God is still God,” he wrote on his Facebook page. “No matter what, God is still a good God. God loves you, and so do I.”

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"Dancing With the Stars" fans, wait no more. The season 20 star-studded celebrity cast was revealed today on "Good Morning America" and the competition is shaping up to be one of the fiercest yet.

Television icon Suzanne Somers, music great Patti LaBelle, football star Michael Sam and Olympian Nastia Liukin are among the stars getting ready to rhumba and samba on the dance floor.

Nastia Liukin, an Olympic champion gymnast, is paired up with none other than beloved pro dancer Derek Hough, who is back this season in a shocking surprise. Hough, a five-time mirror ball champ and Emmy-winning choreographer, previously announced his "DWTS" departure to perform in the Radio City Spring Spectacular.

"This all happened literally two days ago," Hough said live on "GMA" from New York where he will practice with Liukin. "I had a little heartbreak not being able to part of the 20th season. I'm so glad we were able to make it happen. Let's make it the best season ever."